Alex Rossi

Asia Correspondent

 

Alex Rossi is the Sky News Asia Correspondent based in New Delhi. From there, he covers news across the region including Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Alex is also deployed on major international stories around the world. Last year he spent time in Libya and Egypt reporting on the Arab Spring. He has also covered conflicts in Georgia and Lebanon. In other assignments, Alex has reported on the Asian tsunami and, from New Orleans, on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

He was one of the first correspondents to reach the Iranian city of Bam after it was destroyed by an earthquake in 2003.

Since taking up the post in Delhi, Alex has broken stories about the abuse of India’s food aid programme and the devastating affect of India’s rapid economic growth on rural life.”.

Before his posting in India, Alex was based in Brussels as Sky’s Europe Correspondent and in Russia as Moscow Correspondent.

During his time in Brussels, Alex covered a broad range of stories on the European financial crisis, from political summits to protest-filled streets.

During his posting in Moscow, Alex uncovered a number of exclusive stories on the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Alex was the first western journalist to interview Andrei Lugovoy who was identified as the chief suspect in the criminal inquiry.

Alex is married and has two children.

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  1. Nato convoy lorries blocked by Pakistan from crossing into Afghanistan

    The strategically important Torkhum border crossing was closed after the air strikes 12:06pm UK, Tuesday May 15, 2012 Alex Rossi, Asia correspondent Pakistan's political and military elite are meeting to discuss reopening Nato supply routes into Afghanis

  2. Shaheen 1-A intermediate-range missile and Pakistan prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani

    Yousaf Raza Gillani, the prime minister of Pakistan, has not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty 2:24pm UK, Wednesday April 25, 2012 Alex Rossi, India correspondent The Pakistani military has claimed to have successfully tested a nuclear-capable

  3. The Chinese aircraft carrier Varyag is pictured during its second sea trial in the Yellow Sea

    8:45am UK, Thursday April 19, 2012 Alex Rossi, Asia correspondent India has successfully test fired a new nuclear-capable missile known as the 'China Killer', prompting fears of regional instability as more countries join in the arms race. India and Chin

  4. Pakistani policemen stand guard outside the house where bin Laden's family is believed to be detained in Islamabad

    Pakistani policemen stand guard outside the house where bin Laden's family is believed to be detained in Islamabad 8:53am UK, Wednesday April 18, 2012 Alex Rossi, Asia correspondent The family of Osama bin Laden is expected to be deported from Pakistan t

  5. Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, talks to reporters in Pakistan.

    2:01pm UK, Thursday April 05, 2012 Alex Rossi, Asia correspondent One of the world's most wanted men has appeared in public and dared the US to come and get him after it posted a $10m (£6m) bounty for his capture. Hafiz Saeed, who has links to terrorist

  6. Activists in India demonstrated against Balwant Singh Rajoana's hanging

    Activists demonstrated against Balwant Singh Rajoana's hanging 6:18am UK, Friday March 30, 2012 Alex Rossi, India correspondent The execution of a Sikh radical for his role in the assassination of a state chief minister by a suicide bomber in 1995 has be

  7. Tibetan exile Janphel Yeshi set himself on fire during a protest in New Delhi against an upcoming visit to India by Chinese President Hu Jintao

    Tibetan exile Janphel Yeshi was pictured after he set himself alight 1:04pm UK, Wednesday March 28, 2012 Alex Rossi, India correspondent A demonstrator who set himself on fire in New Delhi to protest about Chinese rule in Tibet has died. The Tibetan man,

  8. Tibetan exiles protest against the visit of Chinese Presient Hu to India

    Tibetan exile Janphel Yeshi set himself on fire in New Delhi 8:11pm UK, Monday March 26, 2012 Alex Rossi, India correspondent A Tibetan man who set himself on fire in New Delhi to protest against this week's visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao will be l

  9. Regime supporters gather in Damascus

    3:47pm UK, Sunday March 18, 2012 A car bomb has exploded in Syria's second city of Aleppo, reportedly killing three people and injuring 25 others. The state news channel Syria TV said a "terrorist" bomb had gone off between two residential buildings in t

  10. Mustafa, a Syrian refugee who says he was beaten by security forces

    Seventeen-year-old Mustafa says he was detained for 100 days after being picked up by a government militia in Idlib 5:55am UK, Sunday March 18, 2012 Alex Rossi, Sky News correspondent, on the Turkey-Syria border Refugees in Turkey and residents still liv